Culture, Modernity and Revolution: Essays in Honour of Zygmunt Bauman

by Kilminster,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415082662
• ISBN10: 0415082668
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

InCulture, Modernity and Revolutiona group of internationally renowned sociologists from East and West, come together to honor Zygmunt Bauman. Their essays not only honor the man, but provide important contributions to the three interlinked themes that could be said to form the guiding threads of Bauman's life and work: power, culture and modernity.Culture, Modernity and Revolutionis both a remarkable sociological commentary on the problems facing East-Central Europe and an exposition of some of the key, hitherto neglected, features of the modern cultural universe. The book has a unity of purpose. In no sense is it a development of Bauman's ideas by followers: its editors retain a critical distance and seek to present the man and his ideas to a wide audience. It will be of interest to sociologists, philosophers, political scientists and students of culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction Intellectual Migration and Sociological Insight	p. 1
Culture	p. 23
The Cultural Programme of Modernity and Democracy	p. 25
Three Aspects of Modernity in Simmel's Philosophie Des Geldes	p. 42
Technocracy and Democratic Politics	p. 66
Omnivorous Modernity	p. 102
Revolution	p. 125
The Revolutions of 1989 in East-Central Europe and the Idea of Revolution	p. 127
Problems and Prospects of a Socialist Economy in Europe	p. 154
The Social Role of Eastern European Intellectuals Reconsidered	p. 166
A New Middle Class?	p. 184
Democracy Versus a New Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe	p. 201
Addendum Culture and Power in the Writings of Zygmunt Bauman	p. 215
Bibliography of the Works of Zygmunt Bauman	p. 248
References	p. 261
Name Index	p. 277
Subject Index	p. 280
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